HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Among the graduation ceremonies this weekend was a special one. Two-hundred and sixteen students received their degrees in medicine from UT Health Medical School. And one famous Houstonian was there to see his grandson follow in his footsteps and become a doctor -- legendary heart surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley. <\/p>\n
They are the grandsons of Dr. Cooley, one of the most famous heart surgeons in history, and Peter Kaldis and Charlie Fraser are medical students at UT Health Medical School. <\/p>\n
\"He's brilliant, he's very witty and he's very fun to be around,\" said Fraser. <\/p>\n
Kaldis remembered how his grandfather's name would often come up in class. <\/p>\n
\"The surgeon would ask for the 'my scissors' and they'd go in and do a story about these scissors. These are called 'my scissors' because Dr. Cooley would ask for 'my scissors' and he designed these not knowing that I was his grandson,\" said Kaldis. <\/p>\n
And when other med students would find out who they were. <\/p>\n
\"Most of them say it's pretty cool,\" said Fraser. <\/p>\n
\"I remember being little and looking in the Guinness Book of World Records and seeing there's my grandfather's name!\" said granddaughter Laura Fraser. <\/p>\n
Of the five Cooley children and 16 grandchildren, nine are in the medical field. His daughter, Dr. Weezie Davis, is an ophthalmologist and Peter's mother. <\/p>\n
\"I'd love to watch him operate, although I would get a little faint and I'd have to sit down from time to time. But he encouraged me, if he hadn't encouraged me to go to medical school I probably wouldn't had enough courage to do it,\" said Dr. Davis. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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